Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: olcott Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: Every sufficiently competent C programmer knows --- Very Stupid Mistake and Liars Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:50:17 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:50:20 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="732aa2dbf98258db54fe29c769638485"; logging-data="2802920"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+s1L58dpDWp4XSYcfoIWX+" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:99NlRZ0bUvjlGYXDYZCYcSSz6A8= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250312-2, 3/12/2025), Outbound message Bytes: 2130 On 3/12/2025 8:03 AM, André G. Isaak wrote: > On 2025-03-11 20:29, Richard Heathfield wrote: > >> Look up "infinite". You keep using that word. I do not think it means >> what you think it means. > > If you continue to engage with Olcott, you will discover that a great > many words don't mean what he thinks they mean. > > André > Incomplete[0] (base meaning) Not having all the necessary or appropriate parts. Provable[0] (base meaning) Can be shown to be definitely true by some means. -- Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer